When Apple announced Metal for MacOS it promised a new era in Mac gaming performance. Unfortunately, almost two years passed before we saw the payoff, and aside from hating to wait, it also led to delayed top-tier games while companies had to wait until the API was mature enough to implement. Feb 06, 2013 Please update all the metal slug games to IOS 11 Great games, really want to play them again. But can’t unless the developers update the games to work with IOS 11 and later. I hope you guys get onto it, I love these games, and I’d also love to see them put out all the other metal slug games like MS7 and MSXX on the App Store. Oct 24, 2019 Mac Pro introduced in early 2008 or later Xserve models introduced in early 2009. To find your Mac model, memory, storage space, and macOS version, choose About This Mac from the Apple menu. If your Mac isn't compatible with OS X El Capitan, the installer will let you know.
When OS X El Capitan ships this fall we should see some big improvements in performance on our Macs thans to Metal, which is Apple's system for vastly improving how our computers handle graphics. There isn't any official word yet on which Macs will support Metal, but we do have some idea of what to expect thanks to the efforts of developers who have been digging through the El Capitan beta.
Metal is coming to the Mac, but not all modelsBased on the driver software developers have found so far, it looks like support is there for graphics cards from Nvidia, Intel, and AMD. Here's the unofficial requirements based on netkas.org research:
- Nvidia GeForce GTX 400 series and newer
- Intel HD4000 and newer (Ivy Bridge or newer)
- AMD HD7000 and newer
You can see which graphics card is in your Mac by clicking the Apple menu and choosing About This Mac. Look for the Graphics entry under the Overview tab.
World of tanks dmg. My 2012 Retina MacBook Pro shipped with Nvidia's GeForce GT 650M, which sure doesn't look like a GTX-level card to me. That doesn't mean my three year old Mac laptop definitely won't be able to take advantage of Metal, but based on the limited information available today it doesn't look promising.
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In comparison, the current top 15-inch Retina MacBook Pro ships with either Intel's Iris Graphics 6100 or Intel Iris Pro Graphics and AMD's Radeon R9 M370X. The MacBook Air ships with Intel HD Graphics 6000, and the MacBook includes Intel HD Graphics 5300. High sierra download dmg apple. Presumably all of these models will support Metal.
If your Mac isn't Metal-compatible, that doesn't mean it can't run OS X El Capitan. Apple said all Macs that support OS X Yosemite can upgrade to El Capitan. Here's which Macs will be OS X El Capitan-compatible:
- iMac (Mid-2007 or newer)
- MacBook Air (Late 2008 or newer)
- MacBook (Late 2008 Aluminum, or Early 2009 or newer)
- Mac mini (Early 2009 or newer)
- MacBook Pro (Mid/Late 2007 or newer)
- Mac Pro (Early 2008 or newer)
- Xserve (Early 2009)
OS X El Capitan was unveiled during Apple's 2015 Worldwide Developer Conference keynote presentation at the beginning of this week. It's available as a developer-only beta now, and as a public beta in July. Dmg logo. The official shipping version will be a free upgrade some time this fall.
By Mike Wuerthele
Monday, September 25, 2017, 09:58 am PT (12:58 pm ET)
High Sierra has arrived for all users, and brings the Apple File System to the Mac for the first time, while introducing support for a variety of other standards such as HEVC video, HEIF image encoding, and Apple's Metal 2 graphics platform supporting technology like external GPUs.Monday, September 25, 2017, 09:58 am PT (12:58 pm ET)
macOS 10.13 High Sierra is now available as a free download from the Mac App Store. Here's what you can expect to find once you install it.
The Gold Master candidate was build number 17a362a. The full release is 17a365, indicating some changes have been made since the last beta release earlier in the month.
Safari
In general, Apple's browser is now faster and consumes less power than previous versions. Specifically, Apple claims that the new version of Safari is 80 percent better performance on modern JavaScript.
Other additions to Safari include blocking of auto-play videos, Intelligent Tracking Prevention using machine learning to identify trackers and segregate cross-site traffic monitors.
Safari has drawn the ire of the advertising industry. Six ad industry organizations complain that Safari's Intelligent Tracking Prevention will not only hurt them, but the public as well —but Apple disagrees.
Photos
Photos has a new view, including a chronological display, and new filtration mechanisms. Metadata, including image categorization performed by machine learning routines, are automatically synchronized across devices.
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Apple has also opened up its printed photos to third parties —but still hasn't shared much information on it since it was discussed during the 2017 WWDC
APFS in macOS
Apple File System, or APFS, was designed with all of Apple's platforms in mind, scaling from watchOS to iOS and tvOS to macOS, and taking advantage of the fact that most of the company's products are now using Flash or SSD storage. It also was built with encryption and the security it provides to users as a primary underpinning of the technology.
After a difficult beta process, with the feature not supported on 'some' drives, APFS will not be initially supported on Fusion Drives such as those commonly found in the iMac. It is unclear precisely when it will be implemented.
Migration of H.264 to H.265/HEVC
Citing the wider adoption of 4K and HDR videography, Apple has added support to macOS for H.265 and HEVC. All High Sierra-compatible machines will support the codec, some in software, and some in hardware.
Metal
Metal 2 includes driver optimizations, and apple claims that it brings up to a 10 times better draw call throughput. More debugging tools are now available, and the Mac Window Server has been migrated to Metal as well to enhance performance of the system-wide animations.
Metal 2 will ultimately bring the ability to use Thunderbolt 3 external enclosures for high performance video cards officially in macOS. However, the feature will only be added to the operating system at some point in the spring of 2018.
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Compatibility
Regarding hardware, Apple has not put any more limits on High Sierra than already existed on Sierra. However, High Sierra is the last version of macOS to support 32-bit apps 'without compromises.'
In conjunction with announcing High Sierra over the summer, Apple has declared that in January 2018, all new apps submitted to the Mac App Store are required to be 64-bit. The noose tightens a bit in the summer of 2018, with all app updates needing to comply with the mandate.